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Reluctant cosmopolitans : the Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam /
Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Portland, Ore. :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2000.
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| Colección: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Special Usages; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Dutch Jerusalem: The Distortions of History; 1: 'The True Book of Experience': Amsterdam's Toleration of the Jews; 2: Refuge and Opportunity: The Geography of a Jewish Migration; 3: Commerce, Networks, and Other Relations: The Inner Workings of Portuguese Jewish Entrepreneurship; 4: Nação and Kahal: A Religious Community in the Making.
- 5: 'Dissonant Words', 'Bad Opinions', and 'Scandals': Varieties of Religious Discord and Social Conflict6: A Patchwork Culture: Iberian, Jewish, and Dutch Elements in Peaceable Coexistence; Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Jewish Ethnicity in statu renascendi; Appendix: Details of Freight Contracts; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects.